Excellent news! Thanks! Patrik
On 31 May 2019, at 12:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: > Hi MailMate users, > > a couple of updates on the subjects I wrote about a month ago. > > First some very good news: I've finally passed the verification process for > the Google OAuth API. It has been a bit frustrating and involved weird steps > including making a YouTube video essentially showing that MailMate is an > email client. In the end I was again asked to go through the security audit, > but after yet another appeal it was revealed that this was a mistake. This > means that MailMate will continue to support Gmail -- also after January > 2019. Well, at least until the next time Google decides to threaten to pull > the OAuth plug. > > My work on WKWebView (the new message view) continues. It's still not ready > for testing (because of a lack of essential features like image blocking and > signing/encryption results), but I've added important major features like the > “Find” interface to do text searches. A new feature is that this now also > works for the headers. Scrolling behavior has been tricky to implement, but > this is almost complete. Next up are changes needed for how HTML is created > for the message view. The new message view allows multiple HTML segments to > be created and displayed in separate HTML views. This is both more flexible > and more robust with respect to security when dealing with signed/encrypted > content and/or when displaying complex and/or multiple messages. > > (And the bad news: When I work on major features I tend to fall behind on > answering emails and updating support tickets.) > > -- > Benny > https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/ > > On 30 Apr 2019, at 16:56, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: > >> Hi MailMate users, >> >> I know I'm behind on answering emails (also on the mailing list), but it >> doesn't mean I'm not working :) >> >> ## WKWebView >> >> Right now I'd just like to note that I'm busy working on replacing the main >> message view in MailMate. It currently uses the so-called WebView class >> provided by Apple, but this was deprecated a long time ago (by Apple) and it >> should be replaced by a so-called WKWebView. Both classes are used to >> display HTML (which MailMate also generates to display plain text messages) >> and if that is all that is needed then it's a simple replacement. But >> MailMate also has image blocking, context sensitive menus, text search, etc. >> and all of this has to work in a completely different way. In some cases, >> it's not even clear that I can provide the same features as before. We'll >> see about that. WKWebView is 10.10+, but right now it looks like image >> blocking can only work on 10.13+. I'm not quite sure what to do about that >> yet... >> >> The latest test release includes the new message view, but it's disabled for >> now because too many things don't work yet. I'm mainly writing about this >> since some changes might also affect the old message view in the latest test >> release. >> >> The good news is that when the replacement is finished then I should, at >> least in theory, be able to fix various old issues. >> >> ## Google OAuth API Application Verification >> >> MailMate uses the so-called OAuth2 authentication method for Gmail IMAP/SMTP >> access. This works far better than password-based access which I suspect is >> eventually going to be dropped completely by Google. I had (and still have) >> some reservations about OAuth2 support which I outlined in [this blog >> post](https://blog.freron.com/2015/is-oauth2-support-a-good-thing/). I >> expressed that I worried that Google would some day use OAuth2 to “hit the >> kill switch” on MailMate... >> >> ...and recently I was told by Google that I needed to start a verification >> process for MailMate. I've done that and if I understand correctly I have >> until the end of 2019 to complete this process. >> >> Now, the problem is that I'm not really sure I can (or is willing to) >> complete the verification process at all. It *might* include a security >> audit with a price tag between $15000 and $75000+ (I'm clearly in the wrong >> business). There seems to be exemptions for desktop email applications and >> I've asked Google to clarify this, but I also feel that I'm obligated to >> tell my users that I think it's a potential risk that MailMate cannot >> support Gmail starting January 1st, 2020. As soon as I fully understand >> what's going to happen, I'll make sure to clearly state it wherever it's >> relevant on the homepage and in the documentation. >> >> Here's a [link to the Google >> FAQ](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914) on the subject if >> anyone is interested. > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
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